Foundation garment



July 21, 1936. M. CIRINGIONE FOUNDATION GARMENT Filed Aug. 50, 1935 INVENTOR NICHHEL CIRIHGIOHE ATTORNEY Patented July 21, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FOUNDATION GARIHENT poration of New York Application August 30,

2 Claims.

This invention relates to foundation garments and more particularly to corselets or combinations and has for an object to provide an improved construction which will snugly fit and mold the body and bust of the wearer without the concomitant bulges in this type of garment in the region of the frontal juncture of the brassire and the body portion.

Heretofore, corselets employing fastening means in the body portion and extending up and through the brassiere portion vertically, have been tried and found undesirable as they have a tendency to hang loosely and bulge outwardly, particularly intermediate, at, and below the bust portions and breastbone of the wearer when in a relaxed or sitting position, thus presenting an unattractive and unsightly appearance It is an object of this invention to provide a foundation garment which will eliminate all bulges around the bust region and immediately therebelow and therebetween.

It is another object of this invention to provide a corselet or combination having a brassiere portion and a body portion and independently separable fastening means in each portion, spaced from each other and which will take advantage of the natural contours of the body in order to eliminate bulges and conform neatly to the body of the wearer.

It is another object of this invention to provide a corselet or combination so arranged and constructed as to be provided with a front central opening of gap intermediate the body portion and the brassiere portion thereby eliminating the usual bulging in this area and both the said portions being provided with independent vertical fastening means to facilitate the fastening, placing and removal of the garment on the wearer.

These advantageous features and further objects are accomplished by the novel and practical construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter disclosed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, constituting a part of the disclosure, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a foundation garment embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same.

By this invention there is generally provided an integral foundation garment comprising a corset portion and a bust supporting portion, the said portions being so arranged and designed as to provide a central gap or opening between the said portions to eliminate bulging of the garment at the region and area of the hollow of the chest 1935, Serial No. 38,507

when the garment is worn, and both said portions being provided with substantially aligned fastening means with the central gap or opening therebetween to facilitate the fastening, placing and removal of the garment on the body.

The integral foundation garment or corselet is shown as comprising a waist and hip encircling portion 5 and a bust encircling portion or brassiere I joined together at the seam lines 8. The brassiere 1 may be provided with the conventional shoulder straps 9. The front of the waist and hip encircling portion 5 of the garment terminates at its top in a substantially v-shape as indicated by the numeral H and within the area intermediate the hollow of the chest and abdomen of the wearer, and the lower end of the front of the brassire I terminates in a substantially inverted V-shape as indicated by the numeral I2 and at a spaced distance from the upper termination l l of the waist and hip encircling portion 5, defining 0 between the two portions 5 and I a substantial gap or opening l3 (preferably centrally located), adapting each portion of said garment to snugly fit its respective area of the body of the wearer.

Each portion 5, 1, respectively, is independently separably closable, preferably at the front, the closure means of each being substantially in vertical alignment with the other.

Any suitable fastening or closure means may be employed. By way of example the drawing shows the waist and hip or body encircling portion 5 as having the so-called zipper" fastening means indicated by the numeral ,6 and the brassire portion 1 as having hook and eye fastening means indicated generally by the numeral I0.

The fastening means 6 are attached to the pair of vertical opposed edges located at the front of the body portion 5 which extends substantially downwardly from the region intermediate the hollow of the chest and abdomen of the wearer and the fastening means 10 are attached to the pair of vertical opposed edges located at the front of the brassire portion 1 extending upwardly and spaced from the top of the body portion, a gap or opening 53 being formed between the said pairs of opposed edges. When the garment is adjusted on the wearer the respective pairs of opposed edges meet and are closed.

In a garment embodying the invention such as depicted in the drawing 'there is a pair of opposed edges, a gap and another pair of opposed edges, at the front of the garment, the edges having fastening means which close the same 5 when the garment is adjusted on thewearer' and by reasonof the fact that the fastening means do not extend through the gap or open area an improved garment is produced which overcomes the objectional features of the prior art and difficulties experienced in using same and which molds the body throughout without the usual bulging in the area of the gap.

In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated the invention embodied in one of its practical commercai forms but as this illustration is primarily for purposes of disclosure it will be understood that the invention is not limited to this particular form of structure and that it may be modified in many respects without departure from the true spirit and scope of the invention as herein defined and claimed. I wish it further understood that the terms which I have employed herein are used in a descriptive rather than in a limitating sense, except however for such limitations that may be imposed by the state of the prior art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is:-

1. A foundation garment comprisinga waist encircling portion and a brassiere-forming bustencircling portion, each of said portions having means for securing the adjacent edges thereof directly together edge to edge at the front, the lower edge of the front of the bust encircling portion being arranged in overlapped relation with the upper edge of the waist encircling portion along a part only of the front thereof and being spaced upwardly from the upper edge of the waist encircling portion at another part adjacent the center defining a substantial gap or opening between said edges, whereby said portions snugly fit and confine the respective areas of the body of the wearer, I

2. A foundation garment comprising a waist encircling portion and a brassiere-forming bustencirclina portion, said bust-encircling portion being directly stitched to the upper edge of the front of the waist encircling portion along a portion only of the front thereof with the adjacent edges of said portions separated and spaced apart vertically approximately at the center defining a substantial gap or opening between said edges, and each of said portions having means for securing the adjacent edges thereof directly together edge to edge. at the front.

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